December 2007
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“The Yellowstone Park Foundation has launched a Ranger Fund initiative, to raise $2 million in two years.” Story in the Casper Star Tribune by Brodie Farquhar.
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Spray vs. gun bear deterrent debate rages in Montana. By John Cramer, Missoulian. The other day one of the Montana FWP commissioners was out bird elk hunting, got charged by a grizzly. He had no pepper spray and might have killed the grizzly with his rifle. Since then (and it looks like before too) he…
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Tom Mazzarisi, ranger at Madison in YNP told me that things have not gone well for the 5 remaining Haydens who had been hanging out in the Madison River since being attacked and driven from the Canyon area by the larger Mollies Pack. He told me something I didn’t know — last winter they spent…
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Talk about a visual imposition as well as spread of weeds and off-road vehicle tracks! This powerline would destroy the view of the Beaverhead, Lemhi, Lost River, and Pioneer Mountain ranges — hundreds of miles. It’s not just the national monument. Carey residents: ‘No!’ to power line. Hostile crowd raps plan put forth by South…
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The JR Simplot Company wants a 1300 acre (2 square mile) expansion of its huge phosphate pit mine in Idaho on the Wyoming border. The federal government BLM just put out a fat environmental impact statement on the Smoky Canyon Mine enlargement, which they seem ready to approve. There are many other phosphate pits in…